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Elena Kagan Says Her Most Meaningful Dissenting Opinion is Her Dissent in Common Cause v. Rucho
Justice Kagan, who went to Princeton, recently received Princeton’s Wilson Award, the university’s highest honor. In one of the best interviews I’ve seen of a current Justice, Princeton President ...
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“The House’s Republican bias is gone. But the gerrymander lives.”
Eric McGhee, Chris Warshaw, and I wrote this column in today’s Washington Post on the evaporation of the U.S. House’s longstanding pro-Republican bias in the 2020s. For more than two decades, the ...
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“Donald Trump Still Hasn’t Disclosed His Secret Transition Funders”
Notus: Donald Trump still hasn’t disclosed private transition donors, missing a deadline that every other president, including Trump himself in 2016, has met for decades. When Trump’s campaign decided ...
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“Democrats Fume Over a Data Disaster Averted: ‘This Can’t Happen Again'”
NYT: Problems with a huge database of voter information that effectively functions as the central nervous system of the Democratic Party grew so worrisome last summer that top Democrats staged an ...
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“Musk and Republican Lawmakers Pressure Judges with Impeachment Threats”
NYT: Congressional Republicans, egged on by Elon Musk and other top allies of President Trump, are escalating calls to remove federal judges who stand in the way of administration efforts to overhaul ...
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“Catalysts of Insurrection: How White Racial Antipathy Influenced Beliefs of Voter Fraud and Support for the January 6th Insurrection”
Tye Rush, Chelsea Jones, Michael Herndon, and Matt Barreto have written this article for the Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics. Here is the abstract: On January 6, 2021, the belief that voter ...
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“How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy”
Elon Musk dropped in about an hour late to a dinner party at the Silicon Valley mansion of the technology investor Chamath Palihapitiya. Mr. Musk’s visit was meant to be discreet. Still … Continue rea ...
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Wisconsin: “Bice: Was it sexist for Brad Schimel to say liberal justices, all women, were ‘driven by their emotions’?”
Let’s stipulate at the outset that conservative Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel never mentioned the gender of the four justices who control the Supreme Court. Let’s also agree that this is what ...
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Divided Ninth Circuit finds Congress holds power to regulate presidential elections as it does congressional elections
Justin helpfully runs through the major elements of the Ninth Circuit’s holding in Mi Familia Vota v. Fontes, but I wanted to highlight a divide in the opinion I wrote about back in 2022 just as this ...
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“Unduly Burdensome Public Records Requests and their Effects on Local Election Officials”
The Stagnation, Retrogression, and Potential Pro-Voter Transformation of U.S. Election Law, 134 Yale Law Journal (forthcoming 2025), draft available: Reckoning with the Undead Irreparable Injury Rule ...
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“In Crucial Judicial Race in Wisconsin, G.O.P. Now Has a Financial Edge”
NYT: The last time Wisconsin held an election for the state’s Supreme Court, Republicans cried foul over the wave of money from out-of-state Democrats that overwhelmed their candidate. Two years later ...
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Department of Insanity (and Inanity): “Warner, Who Said CIA Stole Election, Now Leads DOJ Civil Rights”
The Justice Department has inserted Mac Warner, who last year espoused false claims that the CIA stole Trump’s 2020 presidential victory with the FBI’s help, to run the civil rights division, ...